A story of two court docket orders
The arsenal was used to telling impact within the current Kedarnath bypoll, which the BJP’s Asha Nautiyal received, after the occasion had confronted humiliating defeats in Ayodhya/Faizabad within the Lok Sabha election (June 2024) and the Badrinath bypoll (July 2024).
The Uttarkashi district administration had already carried out an enquiry in September and located that the mosque in query was a authorized entity, having been in-built 1969 on personal land. Funds for its building had been raised by way of particular person donations and the mosque has been registered with the waqf board.
However these particulars had been of no consequence and held no that means for the Hindutva hordes that took out a procession on 24 October threatening to tug down the mosque — they knew totally effectively that the state was an ally whilst they clashed with the police, an incident through which each protestors and policemen had been injured and eight had been arrested for inciting violence.
Uttarkashi district BJP chief Satinder Rana met CM Dhami to complain in opposition to police ‘high-handedness’. Dhami obligingly ordered a re-examination of the land acquisition papers to see if any ‘illegality’ had occurred.
These arrested had been launched on bail. The DSP and SDM Uttarkashi, who had each taken a tricky stand in opposition to the flattening of the masjid, had been packed off by Dhami to state headquarters in Dehradun.
Hindutva teams led by the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) threatened to carry a mahapanchayat in Uttarakashi on 1 December. Afraid this will likely set off extra violence, the respondents sought an pressing listening to earlier than the Nainital Excessive Court docket on 27 November, which refused permission to carry the mahapanchayat, and instructed the police to make sure no untoward incident happened in Uttarakashi.
The issue goes again to the Ram Janmabhoomi motion and the Supreme Court docket verdict of November 2019, through which a five-judge bench headed by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, and together with the just-retired CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, invoked specious logic to lastly clear the best way for a Ram Mandir to come back up on the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi–Babri Masjid website.
